How to detect if you're conservative

When I read a Victorian novel and a modern novel at the same time it's always a relief to come back to the Victorian novel. It seems that modern novels are usually culturally chaotic, whereas Victorian novels are orderly. I'm not here speaking about looking for order, I'm looking to be entertained or perhaps to learn something. Still the Victorian novel is a relief after the modern novel. I'm talking here about feelings before thoughts.

Not to complicate this too much, but it seems that often our behavior, the roles we play, are designed for some artificial social or political objective, rather than living---or reading in this case---with authenticity. Since I believe group-selection is instinctively the primary unit of selection this suggest an instinctive human social and moral order. I wonder if hyperindivualistic modern liberals have this feeling of preferring order but are ignoring it, do to the imbibed a-morality of modern culture, or are they unaware of this feeling for order? Then again maybe I've inauthentically imbibed the role of conservatism, but I don't think so, I didn't arrive at my version of conservatism through the usual channels.